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Atlantic Herring Fishery
Management and Science Update
 

     During 2004, the New England Fishery Management Council’s Atlantic Herring Committee will be developing Amendment 1 to the Federal Fishery Management Plan and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Herring Section will simultaneously develop Amendment 2 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan.  Resource assessment data gathered in recent years, through industry-supported hydroacoustic surveys and tagging activities, will be integral to the scientific basis for new management measures that may be imposed on the region’s herring fishermen and processors.  This seminar featured NEFMC and ASMFC fishery management plan staff, Maine and New Brunswick researchers and a representative of a regional herring harvesters’ organization in a discussion of the basis for amending the region’s herring plans.  Time for audience participation was provided.  Immediately following this seminar, a drawing was held to award the $1000 lottery prize, offered by sardine-processor Stinson/Connors to an individual who had returned a tagged herring to Maine or New Brunswick researchers.

Host:  Jeff Kaelin, Winterport Ferry Co. Associates